From jfischer@demon.co.uk Sat Dec 09 00:58:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!demon!jfischer From: jfischer@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 1995 00:58:29 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. Yet the fundamental pitch tracks with a mathematical rigidity that no living vocalist can maintain for 16 bars. How did they program the subtle emotional cracks in her voice? Was it a neural weight matrix or manual automation? -- Ji-woo Fischer -- Demon Internet Services UK "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From creyes@earthlink.net Mon Dec 11 01:44:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!earthlink!creyes From: creyes@earthlink.net (Camila Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec11.014429.1450@earthlink.net> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 01:44:29 GMT References: <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk>, jfischer@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Fischer) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' -- Camila Reyes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0 From aperez@clari.net Mon Dec 11 19:11:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!clari!aperez From: aperez@clari.net (Amy Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec11.191129.6362@clari.net> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 19:11:29 GMT References: <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk>, jfischer@demon.co.uk (Ji-woo Fischer) writes: > Technical breakdown of Nova's vocal chain: why does it sound both completely human and impossible? > Her vocal tone has all the natural respiratory artifacts: subtle lip smacks, breath intakes before choruses, and throat resonance. That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. -- Amy Pérez "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) / AmigaOS 3.1 From tkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Dec 13 00:23:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!u-tokyo!tkarlsson From: tkarlsson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Takeshi Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec13.002329.7922@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 00:23:29 GMT References: <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk> <1995Dec11.191129.6362@clari.net> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec11.191129.6362@clari.net>, aperez@clari.net (Amy Pérez) writes: > That's why it hits you in the uncanny valley. Your ears tell you it's a real woman singing her heart out, but your brain detects the mechanical precision. It's the greatest vocal performance in synthpop history, regardless of whether it came from vocal cords or a silicon chip. -- Takeshi Karlsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From kramirez@cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 13 23:24:29 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!kramirez From: kramirez@cam.ac.uk (Katrin Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.music.synth-pop Subject: Re: Data: The sound of the 'Vocal Matrix' - pitch quantization vs human formant Message-ID: <1995Dec13.232429.6517@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 23:24:29 GMT References: <1995Dec09.005829.9994@demon.co.uk> <1995Dec11.014429.1450@earthlink.net> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec11.014429.1450@earthlink.net>, creyes@earthlink.net (Camila Reyes) writes: > Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Orion's memo said it best: 'We don't sign stars. We build them.' Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- === Katrin Ramírez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."